A Pie-In-The-Sky Sunday Supper

Everybody loves a great pie. So, I propose gathering the whole family in the kitchen to make that old-time American classic - from-scratch apple pie complete with burnished, sugar-glazed crust and chunks of apples spiked with cinnamon, lemon, and brown sugar.,

It's fall, apples are prime, and it's about time to see how easy a homemade pie crust can be. It's so easy a child can do it - at least most of it. All you need are a few pie-crust secrets, and we have them for you in the recipe.

There's lots for young hands to do in this supper - toss the apples with their seasonings, make most of the crust, cut out decorations for the top of the pie, and stir the soup as it bubbles.

There's a little history lesson here, too.

This Sunday night you'll eat the way our Colonial ancestors did. It's pie for supper (early American families even ate pie for breakfast). As it often did 200 years ago, a simple garden-in-the-pot bowl of soup starts the meal, along with some store-bought whole grain bread. But that's just the build up to our pie. The big moment is that first forkful of your own homemade, fragrant, and delicious apple pie.

September Garden Soup
Lynne's Pie-In-The-Sky Apple Pie

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